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TIL that four-year-old children on welfare in the United States have been exposed to an average of 30 million fewer words than children of higher income families.

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X0KD8 TIL the film director Uwe Boll, who infamously beat up 5 critics in boxing matches, chickened out of a fight against the Internet critic Seanbaby when he learned that he knew muay thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Seanbaby quipped that Boll shied away when he "learned he wasn't fighting a midget".
4kJ6g TIL many people can't visualize mental images, which was a largely unstudied phenomenon and only given the term "aphantasia" in 2015.
X0ap8 TIL in 1979, the descendants of the famous feuding Hatfield and McCoy families appeared on a special week-long taping of Family Feud. A pig was kept on stage during the games. The McCoys won 3-2, but the Hatfields won more money total
8eRNa TIL that cats teeth have a “blood groove” that prevents suction when they bite. This allows them to pull out and bite again more quickly.
ZpwRp TIL about the Basus war, a tribal war that spanned 40 years over the murder of a camel.